Burning Down

What? They always rate Jimi Hendrix as the best guitarist ever. And Jimi was black the last time I checked.

Goofle

I don't think they have a problem with black artists, they just don't like to change their opinions, or give credit to music that was created past 1975.

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Neapolitan

oh... I thought he was talking about the band, The Rolling Stones, which didn't make sense to me anyway because I always thought that Keef and Mick loved R&B and Blues artists.

I saw a bio/movie on Jimi and he would travel with his mom to an Indian Reservation in Canada - I don't know how credible that is.

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blastingas10

Go look at their greatest singers list and try to accuse them of racism

Howard the Duck

zzzzzzzzzzz!

all of them are overplayed for me and I have no desire to hear any one of them for next 10 or 20 years

and still of the view Exile is overrated as sliced bread - dull plodding midtempo rockers

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Janszoon

Sliced bread isn't overrated!

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A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man

Time & Place

25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

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Howard the Duck

he has some Native American blood - Cherokee

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Rock N' Roll Clown

His grandmother was native American.

True. It's very overrated, indeed. A much better Stones' album is Sticky Fingers.

I voted for Highway 61 - my absolute favorite. But I think that you cannot make a "Greatest albums of all time" list and not include "Thriller" in the top 10. Also their should be The Dark Side of the Moon on the place of some of the 4 Beatles' albums (of course they are the greatest artists ever, but half of the albums in this list are theirs )

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Soulflower

If you know that was what I was referring to... what was the need to point that out? Obviously I am talking about the magazine.

Chives

Although I don't agree with their top 10, they are all great albums and many of them are contenders for greatest album, especially for the audience of people that are fans of Rolling Stone magazine. The fact that the choices are tired and predictable doesn't really change that they are great...not that it makes the list any more interesting.

Maybe I sympathize a bit since Sgt Pepper, Revolver, and Highway 61 Revisted would all probably be in my own top albums list at this point.

When I was just seriously getting into music, I would scan through the Rolling Stone top 500 greatest albums list looking for stuff that looked interesting. Most of it was completely unknown to me at the time, so I found it pretty helpful as a resource for discovering which albums and artists are considered historically important by the mainstream. As a collection of albums that are seen as important it's neat, but taken as a straight list of the greatest albums ever made it is miserable.

It also irks me that they never give a clean-cut criteria by which they judge the albums. Greatest as in most influential? Greatest in an artistic sense? If they explain what they meant, I missed it.

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